Has fstab gone redundant??

Question

Hello everyone,
    Has fstab been replaced by mtab,coz it seems tht all the mtab entries are catered to before the fstab entries,its resulting in my root partition to be mounted twice,its showing another partition with 37.0gb size and when i click on it ,its saying
    Unable to mount the selected volume.
    mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /
    mount failed
Can i comment out the root entry in fstab to set things right or am i gonna mess it up??
Thanks in advance,
Rajiv Nair

Answer 1

hello everyone,
this is my fstab file:-
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file>      <dir>        <type>    <options>             <dump> <pass>
none                 /dev/pts     devpts    defaults               0      0
none                 /dev/shm     tmpfs     defaults               0      0
/dev/hdd             /mnt/cd      iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
/dev/dvd             /mnt/dvd     udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide  0      0
/dev/fd0             /mnt/fl      vfat      user,noauto            0      0
/dev/hda3            /            ext3      defaults               0      1
/dev/hda1            /boot        ext2      defaults               0      1
/dev/hda2            swap         swap      defaults               0      0
/dev/hdc3            /media/hdc3  ext3      defaults               0      1
/dev/hdc5            /media/hdc5  ext3      defaults               0      1
and this is my mtab file:-
/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /media/hdc3 ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /media/hdc5 ext3 rw 0 0
from this i still cant figure out the redundant entry and im still getting that duplicate mounts for "/" ,i had the same problem with "hdc3" and "hdc5" but that got corrected by changing the mount points from /mnt/*** to /media/***.
and also i havent manually edited "mtab" , i have only edited "fstab".
thanks y'all,
rajiv nair